The final book and a collection of the best stories from the series Short Trips: How the Doctor Changed My Life Įach collection is conceived around a single theme, with the individual stories exploring that theme:
This was as a result of a competition, run by Big Finish in 2007, to seek out new talent. How the Doctor Changed My Life featured stories all written by previously unpublished authors.
Because of this, each volume is produced depending on the working methods of its editor – some editors commission stories on invitation from writers, whilst others welcome unsolicited submission of stories. The Big Finish Short Trips volumes are produced in a slightly different manner from their BBC predecessors: instead of being centrally produced, Big Finish commissions editors for the volumes, who in turn commission stories from writers for the themed collections. Even so, the books are still available via off-site retailers and a final 29th volume collected the editor's favourite story of each of the previous volumes. In May 2009 and after 28 collections, Big Finish announced that they were ending the Short Trips series as the BBC had not renewed it for a second licence, eventually halting sales of the books on the Big Finish Website in December 2009.
Big Finish Productions negotiated a licence to continue producing these collections, publishing them in smaller runs and in hardback, thus allowing for a higher cover price and increased profit margins than on the BBC collections. The Short Trips name was inherited from similar collections published by the BBC, who decided in March 2000 that it was no longer financially viable to produce collections of short stories. The Big Finish Short Trips are a collection of short story anthologies published by Big Finish Productions based on the BBC Television series Doctor Who, beginning with the collection Short Trips: Zodiac in December 2002 and ending with the loss of their license in 2009. Short Trips: Zodiac was the first anthology in the Big Finish-produced Short Trips range.
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